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Day of marriage July 4, 1914

• The temperature on July 4, 1914 was between 13.4 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • September 5 » World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
  • September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
  • September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
  • October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
  • November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
  • November 2 » World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.

Day of death June 19, 1957

• The temperature on June 19, 1957 was between 15.2 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
  • March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
  • May 1 » Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.
  • June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
  • July 29 » The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
  • November 7 » Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

Day of burial June 22, 1957

• The temperature on June 22, 1957 was between 10.8 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
  • March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
  • March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
  • June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
  • September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
  • October 10 » U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
• 1953 » Julius Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1962 » Frank Borzage, American film director and actor (b. 1894)